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Sure you can. You simply email one of the listed authors and ask them if the document is legit.

And if they say "yes, it is legit", what does that tell you?

That the author has risked their reputation on the claim. If you're doubting the author is legit, interrogate their professional associations with an internet search, relying on the domain name system.

Nothing about any of this is new or profound. Counterfeit documents have been around for hundreds of years.

The question you replied to wasn't "why should you believe someone who says they are behind a piece of research", it was about the usefulness of receiving an email saying it.

Their point (I assume) was that it would be illogical to worry that the report might be written and released by AI yet consider an email response as evidence against it.

If AI can create and release this report it can also hijack a real person's email or create a fake persona that pretends to be a real person.

Three people make a tiger[0], and even current LLMs are good at pretending to be a crowd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_men_make_a_tiger

There's a certain point where this line of thought just becomes an AI-themed rehash of "Trusting Trust" by Thompson

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